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SIGNS OF THE GODS?Written by: Erich von DänikenRead by: Peter BerkrotNotes: A lot of what was in this book they’ve talked about in Ancient Aliens, but it was a fun read nonetheless. Crazy as all hell, but interesting.Score: 8/10

SERIAL KILLERS: TRUE CRIME ANTHOLOGY 2014Written by: Various, including Peter Vronsky and RJ ParkerRead by: MeNotes: Enjoyed this one much more than the 2015 one, but that’s just because I didn’t have to listen to that droning voice reading it.Score: 8/10

MAYA TO AZTEC: ANCIENT MEZOAMERICA REVEALEDWritten by: Edwin BarnhartRead by: Edwin BarnhartNotes: Awesome, awesome, awesome! If you have even only a passing interest in the Mayans and/or other Mezoamerican cultures, I highly recommend this set of lectures. It was over 23 hours, but I absolutely inhaled it, and got sad when I had to turn it off.Score: 10/10

DEAD EVER AFTERWritten by: Charlaine HarrisRead by: MeNotes: So I finally got around to reading the last of the Sookie Stackhouse books (that’s the books that True Blood was based on… in the beginning, anyways). And it was a fine conclusion to the story, all ends neatly clipped and taken care of. While she didn’t end up with the person I’d hope she’d spend her life with in the end, I can’t dislike it just for that (like I’ve read from other readers).Score: 8/10

DEAD ICEWritten by: Laurell K HamiltonRead by: Kimberly AlexisNotes: Finally, a strong entry from the Anita Blake series. The series, now at 26 books, has been in steady decline, but looks like Hamilton is finally listening to her readers, and took Anita’s head out of her ass, and gave her stuff to do other than complain and have power-gaining orgies. In this book, Anita goes back to her roots, and Hamilton delivers a fine book filled with zombies, magic, and crazy bad guys. It would have had a perfect score, but Hamilton tends to repeat herself… a lot. A good 2 or 3 hours could have been shaved off the 20 hour reading time easily, I’m sure, and we’d have lost none of the current story.Score: 8/10

GREAT PHARAOHS OF ANCIENT EGYPTWritten by: Bob BrierRead by: Bob BrierNotes: A little disappointed with this one, not because it’s uninteresting, but because it’s an almost word for word redux of certain lectures from his The History of Ancient Egypt, which I’d already listened to. Still gets a perfect score, though, because it is still an excellent set of lectures.Score: 10/10

THE VIKINGSWritten by: Kenneth W HarlRead by: Kenneth W HarlNotes: Awesome beginning, meh middle, good end. The middle was meh because they went on and on about the Viking’s conversion to Christianity. The first lecture about it was fine. But then there were more; how Sweden converted, how Finland converted, how Norway converted, how Iceland converted, how… we get it, they converted, move on. And the, um, lecturer, uh, always seemed to, uh, need to, um, search for his, er, words. I got used to it, but it was annoying at first. There were also people occasionally heard in the background, and there was a constant humming sound, like he was right beside an AC or something.Score: 7/10

THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROMEWritten by: Garrett G FaganRead by: Garrett G FaganNotes: I really want to give this one a perfect score, cause it was so very interesting, but I can’t. Not with this lecturer. I did finally manage to get used to his way for speaking, but it took me half the course. He’d pause right in the middle of……. a sentence, for a real long time sometimes, too. But the course was so amazing that I’m only going to knock him half a point for it.Score: 9.5/10

LOST WORLDS OF SOUTH AMERICAWritten by: Edwin BarnhartRead by: Edwin BarnhartNotes: Not quite as good as Maya to Aztec, but still very, very good. You can almost never go wrong with The Great Courses.Score: 10/10

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHINGWritten by: Stephen HawkingRead by: Michael YorkNotes: Excellent, but rather repetitive if you, like I, have already read A Brief History of Time. Still, the man is brilliant, no denying that!Score: 9/10

Ancient Egypt comes to dazzling life in this 48 lecture course. The lectures cover thousands of years of history, from the rise of the Egyptian empire to becoming the world’s greatest civilization of the time, to the final days of the empire with the fall of Egypt’s most famous queen, Cleopatra. Professor Brier is a good lecturer, if a little repetitive sometimes, but he very clearly loves his work, and it shows big time in the lectures. His passion for the subject is almost contagious. You can’t help but smile as he talks about the long dead monarchs like they were buddies, sometimes even calling them ‘my man’ (ex, ‘my man Snefru’, or ‘our man Ramses’). It was quite amusing, and gave the history a personal touch. If you’re even just a little interested in ancient Egyptian history, I definitely reccomend this course. I give it a wonderful 9.5/10.

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